Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] strong " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't need to be strong wind to ruin the sound on a shot , the lightest of breezes can sound like a Force 8 gale in spite of the foam wind-shield with which the microphone is no doubt adorned . |
| 2 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 3 | He derives much satisfaction from introducing someone to the sport and says : ‘ You do n't need to be strong to play it . |
| 4 | The ‘ blood and gore ’ witches appear to be strong in the South of England , especially in and around London . |
| 5 | However , the recovery is not expected to be strong enough to enable total visitor numbers for 1991 to surpass 1990 's record of 1.4 million . |
| 6 | Results for 1990 , unlike so many other retailers ' , are expected to be strong , with profits up on the '89 figure of £64 million . |
| 7 | The pupils are insulted by weakness on the part of those in authority who they expect to be strong and this weakness , once established , provokes more playing up : |
| 8 | Given the long lead-time between ordering a nuclear plant and its commercial operation , the high cost of construction , the equally awful cost of eventually decommissioning it , the margin for safety , the time-consuming process of obtaining approval ( the enquiry into all aspects of the British PWR Sizewell B took two-and-a-quarter years and cost £20 million ) the commitment has to be strong and ‘ strategic ’ enough — as in France — to counter the lack of resolve as the bills mount . |
| 9 | For the best results , the framework has to be strong enough to support itself and two thicknesses of 12mm plasterboard . |
| 10 | Once you 've got a system based on a particular form of fuel , such as petrol or gas , there has to be strong incentive to change it if it works well . |
| 11 | There was reported to be strong personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal , who had been Demirel 's economic adviser in 1979-80 before acting as an adviser to the military regime of 1980-82 and founding the ANAP in 1983 . |
| 12 | Benazir Bhutto looks to be strong but it 's a coalition of convenience not conviction , in a country where politics follows the rules of war , opposition means nothing , winning is everything . |
| 13 | Through assiduous exercise he came to be strong enough to ride and march with his troops . |
| 14 | Those which grow near silty areas do not appear to be strong plants . |
| 15 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 16 | ( Chinese and Japanese mustards are also said to be strong , but I have not tried them . ) |
| 17 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 18 | The links with the sixth form must be seen to be strong 80 that the risk of leakage to the county provision at 16 is minimised . |
| 19 | The man she 'd dreamed of was strong , just as Adam was strong , but he was compassionate too , and full of gentle humour . |
| 20 | But when the doctor , the vicar and Gabriel arrived , and she no longer needed to be strong , her self-control finally broke , and she became very ill . |
| 21 | Feelings were thought to be strong , on either side , about the sentence that was now to be carried out . |
| 22 | You 've had to be strong to survive — just as poor Nora had to be when your father died , and she was left on her own . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He is a good man , mademoiselle — all the world would tell you so — but he has had to be strong — to bear everything on his shoulders . |
| 24 | We are not going to establish British companies across Europe , let alone across the world , if our monopolies legislation disallows mergers of major companies within one industry — the only way they are going to be strong enough to do it . |
| 25 | They have to fly increasingly by the seat of their pants , knowing that their trouser-material is sometimes not going to be strong enough to hold them up . |
| 26 | ‘ You and I are going to be strong against temptation . |
| 27 | There seem to be strong parallels between energy in the body and energy in the landscape and , in the early 1970s , John Wheaton put forward in The Ley Hunter the idea of ‘ Earth Acupuncture ’ subsequently taken up and developed by Tom Graves . |
| 28 | You 've got to keep your cool , you 've got to be strong in the head . |
| 29 | In the Netherlands the dominant breed today is the Holstein-Friesian , bred to be strong , fertile , productive , adaptable and large : the cows stand 140–150cm at the withers . |
| 30 | The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community . |